1996 World Series Video 

The Super Sluggers ad was iconic even before the steroid stuff came out. Now it's iconic for all the wrong reasons.

I know those 92/93 tapes word for word. As a 6 and 7 yr old at that point, I gave myself no choice lol. Probably would have never grown to love the jays and baseball so much in general without those old VHS tapes.

Two million!!!!

Yup me two same w super sluggers. Im 34 now and its still implanted in my brain.

Wow that is so beautiful that this series all by itself caused you to fall in love with a game you knew little about. I have been a fan of baseball as well as many other American sports and this was my greatest thrill/happiest moment. But the way this video immortalized this series and captured the suspense was so well crafted and beautifully done.

Wow. I was 13 so we are close in age. I asked for it after they won. One day in November I got antsy and I asked my mom if she had by any chance gotten it yet. She told me she was going to wait until Christmas to give it to me but since I asked, she gave it to me early. She was the best. Sadly she just passed away this March. Agreed though, this may be the best gift I ever got too.

Wow we have a lot in common, my mother just passed as well. Be well brother & go Yankees!

Agreed

He was a clutch pitcher no doubt. But in Game 3, Glavine did deserve a better fate. His defense and bullpen let him down big. So too did Smoltz’s defense in Game 5. Between them, Glavine and Smoltz pitched 15 innings in Games 3 and 5, and gave up ONE earned run. And I didn’t even touch on the offense.

I agree Chris. He was a huge reason the Yankees were able to turn it around in Game 3. This was a good world series.

@@Aguanga_cowboy007 ​ @williamkanejr3233 Jim Leyritz doesn't get as much credit as he deserves for being the series changer.

@@ramy1881 That's true. Jim sent game 4 into extra innings where the Yankees won (Cheverlet player of the game).

Adam Nathanson oh yeah I love watching that now. Mo Vaughn: "It takes attitude to drive a baseball!"

Steroids dude :).

name one person on the 96 yanks who did steroids. The yanks overcame the steroid era and won 4 titles in 5 years. A feat that has been underplayed due to yankee hatred in espn and other places.

goodtwogo none of those guys played for the 96 team. That was the question he asked.

He's probably a Boston fan, they have trouble with reading comprehension

It's interesting how certain things affect people differently. I remember the Andruw Jones homers from game 1 being a big "Oh no!" moment but by the time McGriff hit the foul pole, the game was long over and it just felt like unnecessary/meaningless piling on for me. Game 2 was just depressing and there was no moment that really frustrated me, it just created this hopeless feeling like we are powerless against them. The most aggravating moment for me was the Andruw Jones double down the line in game 4 off Hayes glove that made it 6-0 Braves. I knew we could not fall behind 3-1 to this team and I was trying to convince myself we still had a chance to come back at 5-0 but 6-0 with a runner at 2nd for Atlanta I was just like ok fuck this, enough already. I thought wrongly that the ball should have been called foul by the umps, I was pissed at the umps in general, I turned the game off and started playing Sega and was beside myself (I was 13 but my older self still prob would have reacted this way). Then about 30 minutes later I heard my dad shouting 'Yes!' excitedly from his room a few times. When I went in to see what happened, he had the game on, they had just scored 2 runs and I watched as Hayes drove in another run and now it was 6-3. I was stunned. How did this happen? I watched the rest of the way and everything after that to me played out like the perfect sports movie.

@@billny33 good observation by you about the Hayes getting a glove on that ball. I was definitely not rooting for the Yankees, but that kept a run off the board. 6-0 should have been enough, but 7-0 would have put it out of reach. Even if everything after that went exactly like it did anyways.

It’s weird how Joe Torre predicted after a game 1 loss. He knew the Yankees will lose game 2 but will win 3 straight games in Atlanta and win it in game 6.

I enjoyed McCarver's but after the homerun too. "And it was a slider in the eyes of Leyritz, another slider from Wohlers. They are dancing in the streets of New York right now." He really killed Wohlers for those sliders too. On the actual telecast he said something like "To get beat on your third best pitch in that situation, you'd never forgive yourself!"

@M here in Venezuela is baseball, but futbol (or soccer, as you call it) is almost the most popular.

I 2nd this... we wore this tape out

As a Yankee fan who loved the 96 WS more than just about anything, this really made me smile. It is a shame the Braves of the 90s did not win more titles. I am at least glad for you for getting the one title the year before.

@@billny33 It is the love for the game that is the most important part of baseball. When players and/or fans take things too personally and lose that love for the game, it insults the sport in the most shameful of ways. YOU, good sir...HAVE that love for the game...even though you are a damned Yankees fan...LMAO (JUST JOKING)

No offense taken and 1999 WS proved 96 was not a fluke.

The Yankees got a cruel slap in the face of their own eight years later. The biggest one of all time actually, in the 2004 ALCS. They thought they had it. And why would they not? They were 3 outs from a sweep. Then it all blew up in their face bit by bit. First they blew a one run lead in the ninth inning ofGame 4. Then a two run lead in the eighth inning of Game 5. Then they lost Game 6 to a guy who was on one leg and had to miss half the 2005 season because of it. Even though they had the possible series winning run at bat in the ninth inning of Game 6. By the time all that happened, you just had to know they were going to get destroyed in Game 7. To be fair they did make a good play to cut down Johnny Damon at the plate. But then 💥 NEXT PITCH … GONE. Next inning 💥 GRAND SLAM. A couple innings later 💥 8-1. They never got closer than five runs down.

I'm the other way. I'm a southerner & love my southern roots to my core but am a ridecor die Yankees fan. That Lyritz shot in Game 4 changed my entire fall.

Same here. 16 years old. Only wished my uncle was alive long enough to see the Dynasty years.

@@Lord_Bibulous I remember going to games in the early 90s and the upper deck was completely empty! I was at the game when they announced Stienbrenner was suspended from baseball and the fans stood up and applauded! Cecil fielder hit a hr for Detroit! Miss the old stadium!

dpinzow one of the few times the Yankees were underdogs in a WS.

After all these years, I noticed how the braves didn’t make a comeback against the Yankee bullpen in games 3 to 6

Easily the most disappointing World Series loss for the '90s Braves. I would rank them in this order... 1. 1996 against New York 2. 1991 against Minnesota 3. 1992 against Toronto 4. 1999 against New York Sure, you could say that 1992 was more disappointing than 1991 because they lost the World Series two years in a row but they were much closer to winning it in 1991 and probably should have won it to be honest.

See I would think 1991 would have hurt worse than '96. You were literally 1 mental error away from winning the series in 91, and you lost the final 2 games on walkoffs in what turned out to be possibly the greatest series of all time. I get that in 1996 you clearly felt you were the better team, but you would have had to win not just 1 more game but 2 more games to reverse that series so its slightly more of a reach than '91.

All Mattingly had to do was sign up for 1 more year he would have finally got it but back injuries prevented that and the rest is history. ..

V b now with all the stupid new rules makes it boring

Sorry for your loss. A lot of people including me were sure Montreal had the 1994 WS in hand. Best team never to make the playoffs. That's for sure.

What I don't understand is why Bobby Cox went Wholers for a two inning assignment, knowing he never pitched more than two innings all season. Leyritz did a great job fouling off the last two pitches which were sliders. In the 2-2 count, Leyritz expected a fastball, his best pitch. But again Wholers threw another slider in his wheelhouse and crushed it to left field. Indeed, it was the turning point of the entire series, the Braves never recovered from the game 4 loss.

"Hit in the air, way back, Andruw Jones at the wall looking! GOODBYE HOME RUN TIE GAME!" -Gary Thorne

Henry I I'll tell you, I was 13 when they made this playoff run. I followed the season, just old enough to really be passionate about a baseball team all year and understand the game well. When they entered the World Series against Atlanta I remember praying to God like I never had before begging them to please beat the odds and take Atlanta. When they won this series it's probably the greatest thrill I've ever had as a sports fan. This may be why you see so many video clips of this series on my channel. So for the first time at 13 I asked my mom if she could order a World Series video for me for Christmas. It came early and I sort of got her to give it to me in November because I couldn't wait that long. When I watched it, I couldn't believe just how well they had captured that feeling of this series. That feeling that the Braves were so good and the Yankees so hopelessly behind, how all these strange things went their way against the odds, how it almost seemed divine intervention. They captured just how intense and nerve-wracking every game and tense moment really was with these brilliantly-edited orchestral music sections (like the Wetteland-Polonia AB at the end of game 5 w/the O'Neill catch), and they captured the heart of Torre and this team. That sense that even if you might hate "the Yankees" but you still had to have a soft spot for this 96 team. And not from a propaganda Yankees fan/NY media standpoint, but from a neutral baseball fan/national media standpoint.

Despite I hate the Braves, all three pitchers, smolts, Maddox, and glavine were brilliant. It's amazing how all three of them are now in the hall of fame.

My first son was born in 2009, so yes....you and my son are good luck charms.

@M you can see yourself out

Thats how confident Yankee fans were in that series.

Watching this bit has instantly enhanced my 2024 thank you

Cause he was at the game with his son Nd friend talking about how Chipper Jones is an old fashion ballplayer cause how he had his socks or something haha

Sunday Monday Happy Days

25 years ago where did the time go. ..

I did too

@@cambonious23 I had 1998 vhs for Christmas

My very favorite is 1998

Hopefully there will be a new dynasty in the 2020s

@@courtgizzle man I hope so. This sports drought got a brother on edge.

I'm very glad that not only did I never lose this baby but somehow the video never had tracking issues or deteriorated after so many watches over so many years. And I never considered ditching the vcr or the vhs tapes yet :) Nice to know I can share it with other people who have missed out.

AND he played in the 99 World Series I believe. Maybe that was Otis Nixon?

@@nostalgiaman6816 it was Nixon, this was the last year Pendleton was on the Braves

@@KinkESizemore Right. Him and Brian Hunter came back and contributed well against in the NLCS against the Mets.

Same way I feel about Don Mattingly retired after the 1995 season.

I was in seventh grade. Great memory the 96 team.

Good observation. i noticed that too. The narrator was wrong here. Need fact checkers.

That's a surprising low number. I'll bet Earl Weaver got ejected 5 times, but that only counts as one guy.

I was 13. I watched the first 5 innings getting more and more frustrated. When Lopez ground ball down the lime went off Hayes glove making it 6-0 I shouted and turned off the game, sure it was over. I turned on a Sega Genesis game called Wacky Worlds. This is more of a creative game where you can put all kinds of things on the screen that you want. So using the letters available, I filled the tv screen with a message. THE BRAVES STINK! SO DO THE UMPS! And left it there for some time. An inning later, my dad came bursting out of my parents room, "Hey Bill, did you see what happened?" I was done with the game, nothing at that moment could have given me hope I thought but I said fine and looked in his room and a base hit had just made it 6-2, I then watched the next one making it 6-3. It was only the 6th inning. Ok wow. Now there's a shot! Let's do this! I watched intently the rest of the way. My dad would playfully give me crap for turning the game off too early, told me not to give up on them, he didn't. I had to take it, he was right. The rest as they say, was history.

Yup. Its like yogi Berra saying it ain't over till it's over. When you look back at that game the way it was going it looked like they were in the verge of losing that game.

Yankees were deep . Made adjustments with Fielder Strawberry in the starting lineup. The depth they had was tremendous.

And remember. The Yankees were actually underdogs . Atlanta had experience pitching that was just so dominant and a offense that could play big and little . I believe they almost won 100 games.

We all thought they were toast. I think the first 2 games confirmed my biggest concerns. Made me say "yes, they are THAT good, they are better than we are" and actually in Game 4 I got so pissed off after seeing that 6th run score on a grounder off Charlie Hayes' glove that I turned the game off and started playing Sega Genesis. I can still remember I put on an open-world creativity type game called Wacky Worlds just so I could fill up the screen with a message from the letters you can use in the game. I wrote The Braves Stink, So Do The Umps. I think this was because I thought the ground ball off Hayes glove should have been called foul. I was wrong and lacking in judgment and 13. It was the 5th inning, the Yanks, who didn't score a lot of runs had 12 outs left on the road, crowd was going nuts and chanting that Braves chant, and I did think the game was over. A half inning later, I hear my dad still watching the game in his room. He wasn't as intense or as devoted a fan as I was (I kind of got my family into sports as a kid and not the other way around), but I heard him shouting excitedly. He rarely showed emotion like that watching games, especially if I wasn't in the same room with him. I switched back to the game and now it was 6-2 somehow, and I saw another single plate a 3rd run, 6-3. Now I was back into it, and even when Bielecki pulled his 3 strikeout miracle act I stayed with it and that Leyritz homerun was a huge thrill. Thought it was a can o' corn to Andruw Jones off the bat. My dad would give me a little crap for a while about how I lost faith and he never did. I'll gladly accept a little fatherly ribbing to see them come back the way they did that night. And to think, from game 4 on, there was never a point in any of the Yankees wins that you could breathe easy and say ok they got this one. It was a constant panic attack nail biter to the bitter end with the tying run at 2nd base and winning run at 1st in game 6 with Lemke up and a 3-2 count. I really do love that series.

billny33 I didn't even have a rooting interest in this series, but I didn't like the Braves, so by default I was pulling for the Yankees going into it. But then their team really drew me into their gutsy, gritty, passionate play that I actually rooted for the Yankees to win because I thought they earned respect. But you being a hardcore fan, I can understand it being hard to watch. I just had this feeling the Yankees could crawl back into it. It felt like one of those games and surely enough they pulled back even and forced extra innings. then Game 5 was a pitching duel between Pettite and Smoltz, with Pettite making smart decisions and big plays. Great series!

I'm glad that translated to fans of other teams who watched this series. That '96 team is my all time favorite for the specific reason that I felt like we weren't the badguys or the evil empire, we were a likable, endearing underdog team, hadn't won in 18 years, heavy underdogs to the Braves, that not only kept getting up off the mat, but they won you over like a good sports movie. And this video really captured that beautifully.

billny33 yeah both my parents woke me up by their screams as soon jim leyritz hit that tying home run. ever since that I became a yankee fan.

billny33 I was in 4th grade and told to go to bed earlier in the game because "we lost". My mom raised the volume so I could hear the TV when they started rallying. I remember hearing "in the air to left field..." and bolting out of my bed.

and that game 1 loss is no longer the worst postseason loss in yankee history

@@knicksfan89 yea fuck game 1 Atlanta suck ass

96 was his first year doing the national telecast but he was doing local games earlier like he called Mark Whiten's 4 HR game in 1993.

Who knew that a young Joe Buck was doing his first World Series for FOX??

It's amazing after the Yankees lost game one, Joe Torre predicted they will lose game 2, win three straight in Atlanta and win it at home in game 6.

Courtney Gibson Jr way more interesting

The 96 post season all of Yankee loses were at home, they were undefeated on the road.

That sounds great. I was in 8th grade and didn't think to skip school to go to the parade. I really wish I had though. I went to later parades. If you have digitized that video you should upload it to yt and post the link here in the comments, I'd get a kick out of seeing it.

The NHL didn’t have exclusive rights to the Stanley cup until 1927. The Canadians won 22 since the NHL took over the Stanley Cup rights on a full-time basis in 1927. The other two titles came from other leagues. I’m not trying to make meatballs just trying to help give an explanation to why the narrator said what he said.

And the Habs STILL have just 24. The Yankees have 27. In fact, the Habs don't even have the all time highest winning % in their own League's history. That distinction goes to the only Franchise, in the history of the four North American Professional sports league's with over 5 years of existence that has NEVER had a losing season, The Vegas Golden Knights. #Let's go Yankees #Go Knights Go

@@francisalbert1799 you are factually correct.

Good point. I forgot about that one in other comments. Good on him. I hated it at the time. But that was an awesome play. He also helped the comeback be possible in the 5th inning of Game 4 just by getting a glove on Andruw Jones’ first hit that game. Yes, Chipper Jones scored and it was 6-0 when he did. But Hayes kept the ball from going all the way into the left field corner. If he hadn’t, McGriff also would have scored and it would have been 7-0.

Chris Kreager while Atlanta hit 4. 2 by andruw Jones and 2 by Fred Mcgriff

I remember being mad Graeme Lloyd made it to the postseason roster in '96. When we made that trade he was playing hurt for us and pitched pretty bad, I thought he/the trade was a bust. We also had a nasty lefty specialist named Dale Polley and I thought it was a crime to let Lloyd get the spot and not Polley based on their regular season prowess. Torre must have seen something in Lloyd that I didn't because he was great in that postseason and also really solid in 97 and 98 too. It was sad to lose him in the Wells-Clemens trade as collateral damage. He turned out to be a really good Yankee. He even ran out of the bullpen fighting like hell against the Orioles when Benitez hit Tino in the back.

As someone who was rooting hard for the Braves in this series, I always wondered what would have happened if that Braves team had Andres Galarraga instead of Fred McGriff.

Lloyd got traded along with David Wells and Homer Bush in February 1999 for Roger Clemens on the frost day of spring training.

+Dave Bohnen One game. would you take Andy Pettitte or Jack Morris? Is Andy in that conversation? Neither is in the hall of fame.

+billny33 Man thats a tough question. I can't figure out how for the life of me how Jack Morris isn't in the hall of fame. I'd probably rather Petitte considering his reliability by a slight edge

billny33 Well now Morris is lol

The Braves did a lot worse to LOSE the series. Greg McMichael getting lit up in the 8th inning of Game 3; the fly ball down the line in Game 4 and what it led to; Braves leaving 2 runners on in the 5th inning of Game 4 before the Yankees began the climb back; the Braves leaving the tying run at third to end Game 5; then the two big chances they had in Game 6. And I haven’t even touched on the errors the Braves made that contributed to the Yankees getting back in it. The Yankees did do a lot right, don’t get me wrong. But the Braves did NOT play well those last four games AT ALL except their starting pitching. Those guys were fantastic. Especially Smoltz. He’d have easily been MVP if the Braves had won.

2009 was great but I gotta put 09 third behind 96 and 98.

My very favorite is 1998.

If only the Braves’ upper management had focused on having a solid bullpen…there’s no telling how many the Braves could have won. The 90s Yankees were really the pioneers of having a great bullpen.

Between the two teams, there are 11 Hall of Famers in this series (including the managers).

Well then, good job MLB Network, that segment was terrible.

That segment was so bad it was genius. Just to put this in perspective, the one guy needs to clarify that Anthony is someone's name, couldn't find a friend standing five feet away for let's say 2 hours, and yet makes enough money to afford tickets to a World Series.

+Chris Kreager not crazy at all. It was 3-1 Cardinals in the NLCS. That definitely is what should have happened. But then the Braves woke up and realized 'hey, we're the Braves goddamnit!' and turned it around for the next 5 games.

+billny33 It happened again in 2004, when the Yankees 3-0 up against the Red Sox and yet the Red Sox turned it round to prevent the Yankees/Cardinals, maybe we're just not meant to see it lol.

Chris Kreager Yankees would of also took down the cards 4-1

@@billny33 You can talk about "what should have happened" all you want but if you want to say the Cardinals "should have" been in the World Series then the Braves "should have" won the World Series after going up 2-0 on the road and having a 6-0 lead in Game 4. That's why they play the games. The 1996 World Series will haunt me until the day I die. It's up there with the Falcons blowing that Super Bowl to New England.

I never knew there was a perceived curse. Does it extend to the 2016 Falcons or just apply to the Braves failures? Either way, glad you guys got one this year. Better your team than those cheating Astros.

@@billny33 you’re not familiar with the Atlanta sports curse? Or their countless failures in multiple sports? There’s a section in a Wikipedia article called “sports-related curses” about it.

@@KinkESizemore the Red Sox once had a longer “curse” than Atlanta. I never really bought into any of that before 2003. Then the ALCS that year happened, and the Red Sox blew a three run eighth inning lead when the idiot manager Grady Little left Pedro Martinez in too long, and the Yankees tied the game at 5-5. It was 5-2 going into the bottom half. Then Rivera came in and pitched THREE INNINGS of shutout ball and then … Aaron Fucking Boone. It was then that I thought there might be something to the whole curse thing with the Red Sox. Then came the 2004 ALCS and it wiped that all away. And then some. And a quick side note. Since Aaron Boone, the Yankees are 0-3 against the Red Sox in postseason series/wild card games. 2004, 2018, 2021.

@@williamkanejr3233 Not to mention it doesn't help matters that it felt like Boone have been throwing games with the way he managed.

@@iamhungey12345 I doubt that. He'd get killed in NY if he did that. Besides, they reached the postseason every year he's been the manager, and gotten to the ALCS twice in his tenure. Only problem is they ran into an Astros team that just owns them.

I didn't even know Len Cariou was an actor. Did not know what else he was known for.

Baseball is a sport where everyone has to contribute not only one or three individuals which we see in other sport.

@@jordansoviet23 Here this Braves team in 2021 that won only 88 games in the season, That's 7 games over 500, has as many world championships as the great Braves teams of the 90s. It's a funny game.

That was the year the Yankees won 114.

oh hell yeah. one of the best relievers.

Lloyd was huge for them during their whole late 90s run. I remember when the Yankees dealt for him in 1996 and he was really bad. They said he was injured and damaged goods but I didn't trust that. I followed that team very close as a kid so I was really concerned about who was making the postseason roster. They had another lefty specialist reliever named Dale Polley. He was so reliable. I thought they had to give Polley the nod over Lloyd for the postseason roster. They trusted Lloyd for some odd reason but once they got to the playoffs, he was a different pitcher. And from that point on, Lloyd's delivery gave lefties all sorts of problems for years to come.

I mostly remember the guy pas part of the package along with Wells in that trade for Clemens.

Jays fans do too

The tall Aussie! Should be been WS MVP.

well spotted

True but the NHL was not in form when tue Canadians won their first stanely cup. The Yankees overall were more successful they up to that point 35 or 36 American league penants.

That pickoff move by Pettitte in game 5 of that series was an important pitching performance too.

He should teach Aaron Boone about managing a team

Nope.

No. The Braves got this one.

He was. But this Braves team was too left handed. They needed another righty power bat. Andres Galarraga was still in Colorado, however, until 1998.